Gathering a response to recent letter issued by watchdog group

3:54 PM,
Nov. 6, 2012

Marbury High students were joined by students from Millbrook's Victory Baptist Church & School.

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A crowd that began to gather in front of Marbury High School before daylight Friday grew to several hundred as the morning progressed, each one there to support the display by cheerleaders of religious-themed banners at the school's football games.

The rally came in response to a recent letter of complaint sent to officials of the Autauga County School System by Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based organization, described in its literature as a "national state-church watchdog." The group said in its letter that FFRF had been contacted by a "concerned district alumnus" who ...